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TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1045
A Thought for Today
Now when Jesus was born in Brtlilfhrm of
Judaea in the days of ilrrod thr king, behold,
there came wise men from Ihe east to Jerusa
lem, saying. Where is he that is born King of
the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east,
and are rome to worship him.—Matthew 2:1-2.
"What means this glory round our tret,"
The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"
And voices chanted clear and sweet,
“'Today the Prince of Peace Is born "
—Lowell.
A Long War
How long is the war going to last? For
the country and most of its fighting men,
perhaps another year or two. For the
many who won’t come back, another day
or week or month. But for thousands
upon thousands of others it will last for
20 or 30 or 40 years, through the daily
reminders of infirmities, shocks, fears and
shattered nerves. The causes of these
thousands’ misfortunes will be forgotten
by others as the years pass and today’s
sharp events blur and fade. Only the
evidence of the misfortunes will remain.
And the thousands will become pitiable
or eccentric old men to their families,
their firends, and the casual passerby.
It is always so with war. This year the
number of neuro-psychiatric patients of
worm war 1 aamiuea 10 veterans Hos
pitals is higher than ever before. The
peak is expected in 1949, 31 years after
Armistice Day. For many veterans of
1917-18, the impact of war’s peak intensi
ty did not come in Belleau Wood or
Chateau Thierry. It awaits them in the
years ahead.
And it will be so after this war. The
Veterans’ Administration already is look
ing toward the peak year of 1975, when
it is expected that 300,000 beds in veter
ans* hospitals will be needed to care for !
this war’s surviving casualties. Already
there are 90,000 beds in 94 hospitals, and
10,000 of those beds have been added
since the G. I. Bill of Rights was passed.
In many ways problems of military medi
cine are easier in this war. Speed of trans
portation, sulfa drugs and use of blood
plasma have saved countless lives. Many j
wounded soldiers and sailors today are
back in service after recovering from
wounds that would have meant death or
permahent disability in the last war.
But there are new problems, too. While
there are no gas cases today, there are
more burns than in World War I. There
are more and severer neuroses, the conse- ,
quence of his (tory’s) most terrible war. j
There are stubborn, recurrent tropical |
fevers.
To combat these Brig. Gen. Frank T.
Hines, Administrator of Veterans Affairs,
recently established a special medical ad
visory group in the Veterans’ Administra
tion. The group includes leading author- j
ities in all special fields of medicine. They
will study new problems rising out of this
war. advise on procurement of competent
personnel for the Administration’s ex
panding needs, and determine the re
search and educational facilities needed
in the eVterans’ Administration and co
operating agencies. This new group is
another example of the Veterans’ Ad
ministartion’s zealous discharge of its
duties. But the best efforts which it can
give can only repair some of war’s dam
ages. For many it can only minister, not I
Aiiwn n r* 1 bn 11 r o »» l-v/-. / • / > < • n r\ i in rvin m
ory, but suffering and sorrow remain.
But though there may be no cure for
these patients, it is possible to prevent
a recurrence in another 25 years. That,
however, is a task for the world’s leaders
of governments, not itsphysicians.
We Need to Do More
There is no need to tell again the story
of America’s wartime accomplishments.
We know it well. And we can be proud
that no nation, caught almost wholly
unprepared and stung by initial defeat,
had ever armed itself so strongly and
so quickly. But perhaps the story is too
familiar. Maybe we have thought about
it too much, and in the past tense. And
so it is more of a shock to find now that
for all we have done, we have not done
enough. We have not done enough be
cause too few have done too much of the
work in what should be an all-out effort.
We have not done enough because some
of us seemed to think that victory was
a long but assured process which some
how could be achieved without disrupt
ing too seriously our normal diets, com
forts, and pleasures. It has not been
entirely the people’s fault. Some of our
military leaders and heads of govern
ment have more than once tried to spare
us the full information and stern de
mands that war requires. They have
predicted in intemperate hope, and
looked too far beyond the day’s tasks.
Now, suddenly, disquieting reports have
come from Europe. Here at home we
have learned that the food supply is
tighter than ever. (We may have to eat
fewer things and pay ration points for
more things.) Wc have learned that
many items of war equipment are short.
(Some of us will have to forego an after
noon at the race track and stick to our
Jobs.) Such news in the past has been
ihe signal for many of us to blame the
or something, and pass the buck to
i >
"government bungling" to excuse a little
cheating, chiseling, and black marketing.
There have been inequities and blunderers
in putting our vast and complex national
economy on a war basis. That was in
evitable. The job was in the hands of
many human, fallible men. But instead
of trying to make these mistakes less fre
quent and damaging, a lot of us have
aggravated them. We have balked at
being inconvenienced.
The governments and people of Eng
land and Russia have contended with
worse things than the bureaucratic mis
takes of our own untouched land. They
have persevered against hunger, cold, de
struction and death, while too many of
us have connived to get steaks and extra
gasoline. But now the sorrow of war is
coming daily into more and more of our
homes. Is it not time to realize, as the
casualty lists grow, that we at home can
not help end this war with half a mind
and half a heart? Is it not time to ad
mit that it is neither possible nor im
portant that we have all our usua' crea
ture comforts? If wc must fast a little,
can we not do it from humility rather
than compulsion? We arc only asked to
taste a morsel of our soldiers’ and sail
ors’ sacrifices in gratitude for the exem
plary courage with which they fight and
die.
Cooperation Strengthens Freedom
A movement is sweeping the country
that, if given time, will reduce the issue
of compulsory health insurance under a
socialized medical system to an academic
mole hill. Company after company and
industry after industry, in cooperation
with the medical profession, are quietly
establishing voluntary health programs
of far-reaching proportions.
No industry has been more progres
sive on this question than oil. Typical
is the hospital and surgical benefits plan
for employes of the Texas Company, now
in effect throughout the United States.
Already nearly 19.000 eligible Texaco
employes, or approximately 93 per cent,
have become memoers of the plan, wmcn
went into effect on November 1, 1944.
This plan, like many others of similar
nature, banishes, from the expense stand
point. the fear of medical emergencies. It
provides benefits for hospital confine
ment at the rate of four dollars per day
for each day the employe is confined in a
hospital, up to 31 days for each period of
disability; a surgeon’s fee allowance
which provides up to $150 for some major
operations; and reimbursements up to
$20 for incidental hospital expenses. The
plan costs the individual employe 50 cents
a month. The company pays the balance.
Voluntary cooperation between private
citizens such as here illustrated,
strengthens freedom; compulsion, no
matter how worthy the objective, tends to
destroy freedom.
Full-Time Job
Vice-President-Elect Truman showed
good judgement in his announcement
that he planned to devote his full time
and efforts to the job of being vice-pres
ident. For that job promises to be a man
sized assignment in the next four years.
And we don’t think Mr. Truman is put
ting himself in the Throttlebottom class
by electing a narrower range of duties
than that undertaken by Henry Wallace.
As presiding officer of the Senate. Mr.
Truman may help to guide that content
ious body on a wise course of foreign
policy. And, as liason man between the
Capitol and the White House, he will
have an opportunity to promote execu
tive and senatorial cooperation in the
vital conclusions of peace treaties and
our membership in the postwar United
Nations organization.
Mr. Truman brings to his new post a
reputation for integrity and the respect
of his colleagues in the Senate. If he can
use these assets to help bring about a
peace settlement in accordance witn tne
people’s wishes, he will have raised the
office of vice-president considerably
above its traditional importance.
The green light has been given to in
dustries that have been planning for
months to build new factories to manu
facture tires. Latest reports indicate that
the rubber companies are now going
ahead with reasonable expectations that
they can manufacture plenty of tires by
the first of the coming year.
Inasmuch as representative govern
ment functions on the taxation of pri
vate property, government tax exemption
and ownership of the productive machin
ery of the nation is in violation of our
system of government. Representative
government cannot function on revenue
that does not exist.
Selected Poem
C AT AM) KETTLE
• Helen Howland Prominel in The New York Times)
Tlie cat and the kettle
Make music each day —
When the kettle is hot,
And warm the cat's fur,
They start in to sing in
Tlie very same way,
In the same little
Lazy-toned purr.
The kitchen is fragrant
With spiced apple pies,
The odor of pickles.
And hot glngerbread
Smell from the roast drills
To where the cat lies
Till, sniffing, she
Lifts up her head.
A column of steam from
The kettle uncoils—
Its purr turns to humming—
Steam churns to a foam.
The cat rises knowing
That, when water boils,
It is mealtime—
The family la home
\
• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Echoes From
Capitol Hill'
By PETER KDKON
Watetrbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
Doprster.s who are already trying j
to write the President's message to
the new Congress predicted that It |
mast outline some kind ol definite ,
program for providing the CO mil- I
lien post-war Jobs he mentioned as ;
a "must" In his j
campaign speech
at Chicago last
October.
Just after that
speech was de
livered, the Pres
ident Is supposed
to have received
a telegram from
Vice President
Hour y Wallace
expressing fears
that the 60 mil
lion figure was a
little high a n d
Edeon that the Presldenf
might be caught
up on it. In this same wire, how
ever. the Vice President reassuringly
stated his belief that Roosevelt
would early the Middle West.
The reply that came back was to
the effect of "You carry the Middle
West and Ml take care of the 60
million Jobs "
The President didn t do so well
about carrying the Middle West, but
the 60 million job question is still
to be answered.
Assistant Secretary of State Dean
Acheson characterized himself as
"the only live turkey left in the De
partment of State after Thanks
giving" when Secretary Stettlnius
and the six new assistants were up j
on Capitol Hill being inquisitioned !
by tile Senate Foreign Relations j
Committee.
After the six were confirmed, they !
were presented by Stettlnius at his
regular State Department noon ]
press conference. Finally Stettlnius I
introduced Acheson, "the man who I
has been running the department I
for the last two weeks."
"These litle pigs went to market," j
ouiu m iiimuii iu tiir
of six new asistsant secretaries.
Then lie painted to himself "And
this little pig stayed home."
HOW TO BOOST
EOR'KIGN TRADE—
WAEEACE TREEING
Vice President Wallace, in whim
sical mood, gave what lie admitted I
was a "very fanciful" suggestion for
contributing to "58 million’ post- I
war jobs at an Aero Club of Wash- I
ington dinner where lie presented to j
Dr. Edgar Puller of the Civil Aero- I
nautics Administration, the Prank
ft. Brewer trophy for the outstand
ing contribution of 1944 to aviation
education.
If we provide 58 million jobs after
the war. said the Vice President
we’ll have to have a lot of ex]>orts.
And the nations which import U. S.
exports will have to have money to
buy them with. Since American
school teachers have always liked lo
go on summer vacation trips, Mr.
Walace suggested that if the avia
tion industry could provide trans
portation for 3 cents a mile, if bel
ter lourtst facilities could be built
at airports, and if school teachers
could be paid a little more money—
it all might add up to greater U. s.
spending in foreign countries,
which would give them the money
to buy more goods made in Amer
ica and provide more jobs.
Gill Robb Wilson, Presbyterian
minister's son, former barnstorm
ing pioneer pilot and former head
of the National Aeronautic Associa
tion. delivered the principal oration
at tills same Aero Club dinner. After
spell-binding the gathering for near
ly an hour, tilling the post-war skies
with planes flying at 2 cents a mile
—not 3—he came to flowery wind
up and asked his audience, "How’s
that for a Republican?"
"He wasn’t speaking as a Repub
lican,” cracked Vice President Wal
lace to Democratic Representative
Jennings Randolph of West Vir
ginia. "He was speaking as a Pres
byterian."
HARMONY—IN PORTUGUESE
On tlie wall of new Assistant Sec
retary of State Will L. Claytons
old office in the Surplus Property
Administration during all the Sen
arc ruckus over his coniirmatlon,
there hung a motto in Portuguese,
"E?tamos Combatendo O Eixo E
Nao A os Outres,” which means We
should be fitilitiiiB the Axis and not
each other."
How very little some Congressmen
know about the legislation they pass i
was frankly confessed to by Senator
Burton K. Wheeler of Montana '
while the additional clerk hire bill
was undr consideration in the clos- j
lng days of the 78th session.
"How many times are members of
the Senate compelled to vote on
legislation they have not had the
opportunity to study and under
stand?" Senator Wheeler asked his
colleagues. "If we could hire high
class assistants ... we would not
have to take the word of a clerk in
a bureau for everything."
Cracked one wag: "Maybe an
extra clerk could also help ’em un
derstand MacLeish's poetry."
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION
Personally, I am not inclined to
put much stock In New Year’s res
olutions, eithe rfor myself or for
others. But this year I am going to
make a New Year’s resolution. And i
here it is.
What you and I
do during the
next twelve
months is going
to be mighty in
fluential in decid
ing whether the
world will have
peace for the first
time in its long
history or wheth
er we can expect
the continuance
of those wars that
have cursed almost every genera
tion. Wo ha vo never had peace In
the history of nations—only a suc
cession of armed forces. Is It not
possible for men who can do what
the Allies have done In this war In I
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Washington Merry-Go-Round drew “Lrson
New Congress Will Stage Vigorous Debates Against Roosevelt
Foreign Policy; Allied Sacrifices Listed; Hannegan Rowed With
Roosevelt Only Over Diplomatic Appointments.
WASHINGTON, January 2. — The 79th Congress, meeting for its first session this
week, will stage some of the stormiest debates since war broke in criticism of Roose
velt foreign policy.
some ol iiie.se oiatriDes are go- |
ing to be justilied. A lot of the
President's own devoted support
trs in the Senate feel that he
has swerved from the ideals ol'
ihe Atlantic Charter, has not been
tough enough with our Allies in
insisting that we stick to out basic
goals for permanent peace.
In fact, as the New Year be
gins, nothing is more on the
minds of the American public,
next to the lielgian counter-of
fensive, than tile problem of
Allied cooperation. Criticism of
our AHirs has increased all over
the country. Congress merely
reflects the country.
But in expressing criticism,
two tilings are important: (I)
differentiation between Allied gov
ernments and Allied people; 12)
the fact that tire Allied people
are making uemendous sacrifices
which we sometimes lorget.
For instance, Winston Churchill
today lias no more vigorous critics
than the British press, parliament,
and members of his own cabinet
when it comes to Greece. Almost
the entire British cabinet was
lined up solidly against him,
which was why he flew to Athens
personally. Pressure from inside
Britain was so great that he had
to act and act in a hurry.
PEARSON’S LETTER TO
CHURCHILL RECALLED
On Sept. It), Drew Pearson wrote
a prophetic open letter to Win
ston Churchill warning that
American public opinion would
be upset over "your government's
insistence on keeping King George,
of Greece on the throne of Dial i
country despite the overwhelming |
ipposition of the people he |
is supposed to rule. Ameri- ;
tans don't believe in using their
armies, their war goods, and their
prestige, even indirectly, to keep
kings in power. 'That is not
why we filtered the war.”
Pearson also warned in Ills let
ter to Churchill oi the danger of
isolationist sentiment being re
vived in the USA. He told
Churchill: "This is a crucial mo
ment in the tide of events when
American opinion, if caught and
lull HU llfl HUIU l»J IIUIU »»»'••
ernus international statesman
ship. will bo to any leiiKths for
permanent peace. But if dis
illusioned, it will do just the op
posite."
1CUSSIAN SACRIFICES
Another thing that wc .some
times forget is the sacrifices of
tlie Allied people. Russia, lor in
stance, has suffered about iio.ooo,
000 casualties. Some place the
figure even higher. Many of
these casualties have been civili
ans—women and children, who
have died of starvation.
Though the Russians have re
reived lend-leasc from us, they
also transported great factories
out of the battle zone, worked 60
and 70 hour shifts in one of the
great production efforts of the
entire war.
Sometimes, also, we chafe at
the limited number ol men Bri
tain has been able to send to the
western front. bur criticism,
however, should be aimed not at
the British people but at Chur
chillian policies which keep such
a large army in India, the Near
East, and even troops in Greece
instead of Franoe.
Actually, the United Kingdom
lias supplied more men for her
armed forces in relation to her
population than any other ally,
including Russia. Britain is the
lie field of science, commerce, and
nllitary procedure, to evolve some
ilan which will make it possible for
is to avoid war and keep the peace?
For myself, 1 am determined dur
ng this coming year to let no op
lortunlty slip to do everything I
an in order to try to make my
ountry the most effective factor
or peace that tlio v/oild lias ever
nown. To that end. I Intend, as
ne humble citizen out of a hundred
nd forty million, to write to con
ressmen, senators, and everyone
lsc who 1ms influence, urging such
a stand fast for the issues which
ill result in world |>eace. I Intend
a talk about it, write about it.
bink about it. pray about it. and
rork for it during the whole of this
oming year.
If those of us who believe In
iorld peace will stick together and
ork for It, we can have world
e^ce.
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Newspaper Syndicate.
only nation which conKcripls its
women, and has !M> per cent of
all single women between IK
and 40 at work, with HO per cent
of all married women also at
work if they have no dependent
children.
In fact .some British factories
manned almost entirely by women,
one plant making big guns is
staffed 70 per cent by women,
while one shipyard employs wo
men only. British education also
i has been disrupted by the war.
: Oul of every boy and girl between
I 14 and 17 years old. three-fourths
1 are at work instead of in school.
BRITISH RATIONING
If you were in England you
could buy one suit of clothes in
every 2\j years, one shirt every 9
months, one piece of underwear
in every 9 months, one pair of
sc ,':s every 5 months, one pair of
pajamas every 4 Vi years, one pair
ol shoes every year .... if you
a British woman you could buy
one dress <*'i-y nine months, one
item ol underclothing every 4
months, one nightgown every four
I years, one pair of stockings in
I every 2 a months .... A British
31s years, one saucepan every 2
housewife can buy one kettle every
! years, one bucket every 4 years.
I . . . . Only one knife, fork and
I spoon can be purchased by a
household in five years . . . There
are no gasoline "A" cards or basic
gas rationing in England . . . .
Despite bombings, black-out and
robots the British have built three
fourths of all equipment used
by their armed forces, the other
one-fourth coming from lend
lease. One hundred airfield have
been built lor the United Stales in
England by the British us reverse
lend-lease, and one U. s. Navy
base was operated for 12 months
without making a single U. S.
cash expenditure.
CAREER DIPLOMATS RULE
Even before Joe Grew was sworn
in as undersecretary of state, Ills
hand was seen operating true to
file way it did when lie favored
Uie career clique as undersecre
tary of state during the Coolidge
At thnt time, Grew was chair
man of the personnel board which
handles promotions and appoint
ments inside the State Depart
ment. One of the men Grew
brought to Washington to help
him was close friend Leland Har
rison, assistant secretary of state.
Later, when Grew faced sev
eral congressional investigations
because of favoritism in promot
ing his pain, he got himself ap
pointed ambassador to Turkey.
.Simultaneously his friend Leland
Harrison got the choice job of
minister to Sweden.
Now Harrison is slated to get
another choice plum. He is sched
uled to get the Job which Joe
Grew once held as U. a. ambas
sador to Turkey. The career
clique now running the State
Department for Steltinius, man
aged to euchre Laurence Stein
hardt, a non-career man, out of
Turkey as ambassador. And un
less something spoils the game,
Grew’s friend, Harrison, will take
his place.
HANNEGAN VS. ROOSEVELT
Though the Warm Springs
meeting between President Roose
velt and Democratic Chairman
Bob Hannegan was advertised as
••Nonc-too-frlcndly,” actually it
was just the opposite.
When you spend two hours with
the President, as Hannegan did,
it's bound to be friendly, if it
isn’t friendly, the interview
doesn't last so long.
In this case, the President and
Hannegan disagreed on only one
point and there was nothing un
lrlendly about their difference. It
so liuppencd that William D.
Pawley of Florida iiad been prom
ised the job of U. S. ambassador
to Czechoslovakia. Pawley Is head
of the Inter-Continent Aircrall
Corporation, helped organize the
Flying Tigers in China, was a
strong backer of FDR. and it had
been agreed, with White House
upproval, tiiat Pawley should go
as U. S. envoy to Czechoslovakia
when that country wus liberated.
However, the State Department
upset the apple-cart at the last
minute. They transferred Am
bassador Laurence Stelnhardt
from 1 ui::ey to Czechoslovakia,
in order to make room for Joe
Grew’s old friend Leland Harri
son as ambassador to Turkey.
Hannegan told Roosevelt that
assistant secretary of .state to
be Roosevelt's own personal pre
rogative. But he insisted that
diplomatic posts abroad always
had been open to at least some
political appointments and
should continue so. KI)K ac
quiesced, but it remains to be
seen whrtner such a policy will
be carried out.
NOTE: Hannegun can have the
job of Postmaster General if
Frank Walker stejis out. but says
he would rather so back to St.
Louis and practice law.
UNPROTECTED BIDDLE
Attorney-General Francis BUi
! die got a good dose of the Nazi
mentality on a recent visit to an
alien detention camp.
Biddle talked to several of en
enemy aliens, was anxious to lmd
out if they were getting fair
treatment. Finally a bullet-head
ed German sailor set up a ter
rific squawk about conditions in
the camp complaining bitterly
that lie wasn't getting butter
with his meals three times a day.
‘‘That's nothing,” Biddle said,
”1 only get butter twice a day
myself and frequently don't get
it that often.”
"Ja,” replied the Nazi, ''un
der the Geneva convention I'm
entitled to butler three times a
day. I'm protected by the Gen
eva convention. You're not.”
Biddle laughed, turned away.
iCopyright, 1944, by
The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
CUTTING ENGLISH
'Boston Post'
| It took the war to show some la
mentable weaknesses in our educa
tional systems, particularly insofar
as they concerned mathematics and
physical education. Now the Na
tional Council of Teachers of Eng
lish declare they have found a
trend to reduce the time given to
English instruction in many of the
nation’s l!o,000 high schools.
Part of the reduction may be
blamed on el forts to bolster the
shortcomings revealed in the prose
cution of war but, whatever the
reason may be, it behooves our
leaders to give real consideration to
ward a better-balanced all-round
education of youth.
THE FLAKE
'New York Times)
Go out in a snowstorm clad in a
dark coat and you can have a whole
museum full of snow crystals to
study simpl by standing and watch
ing the llakes as they fall on your
sleeve. The variety is literally end
less, but until one has tried to pair
off the crystals. It is hard to believe
that a hexagon can have sa many
variations.
Occasionally one will find a dou
ble hexagon, actuallq a twelve
sided figure; but even in such a
flake there are six rays all alike,
with six alternating rays of another
kind, also all alike. It is as though
two crystals had been placed one
upon the other in such a manner
that the points of one fell precisely
between the points of the other.
Now and then, too, one will find
a flake that is the simplest kind
of hexagon, merely a plate with six
square, unadorned edges. But usu
ally the flake is a star, elaborate in
the extreme, filigree work of amaz
ing beauty. Once in a while one
will And a flake fully half an inch
across, large enough that one can
Your Health
By Dr. William Brady
Signed letters per*airing u per*
tonal health and hygiene, net :•
disrate, diagnoalc of treatment,
will be anawered by Ur. Brady If
a ttamped telf-addretaed envelope
la enclosed. Letters should oe brief
and written In Ink. . o reply can
be made to qaeries not conform
li.g to Instractions. Address Or.
William Brady. National News
paper Service, 320 West Madlaon
Street. Chicago. Ill
THE MOI SE IN THE RAT CAOB
This Is the second In a series of
talks with the young man who U
going to have a baby.
Now don't take that as a face
tious remark. It Is not an attempt
to be humorous. I say the hus
band who Is a man should be as
deeply concerned in every little de- »
tall of the business as is the wife
when there is a baby on order or
even contemplated.
If some husbands remain aloof
and leave all that stuff to the ex
pectant mother alone--AND to the
old woman and other unqualified
instructors or advisers—it is only be
cause there is too much rat In their
make-up and character.
The sheer rattiness of an appal
lingly large number of young men
in this country in respect to having
a baby is apparent in the unhuman
way they desert wife and baby—
maybe I’m slandering the rat fam
ily. but unhumnn is the only print
able term for the deserter]
If a husbund is all man, he will '
quite naturally take as much inter
est in every detail of preparation
for maternity as his wife docs. He
will study whatever his wife studies
and he will go with her to the doc
tor for whatever prcnutal care, in
struction or advice the doctor gives
1 —and sec to It that the advice is
j heeded and followed. There is
nothing a woman should know
about the baby business that her
husband should not know as well
—if he is a real man. In the booklet
' Preparing for Maternity’’ (for copy
send ten cents and nreaddressecl
.stamped envelope) there are chap
ters on the expectant fathers diet
etc.—again no fooling, hut straight
health and nutrition. In the • Bra
dy Baby Book" (copy inclosed with
other booklet if you send ten cents
additional) there are no chapters
epressly for the father —Jbut the
whole booklet isintended as much
for the guidance of the baby's fath
er as it is for the mother. If the
baby's father is all man, he will
take as much interest in the book
let or in any instruction on the care
and feeding of infants as the moth
er does.
There are a lot of young men
who arc unquestionably! ratty in
nature and character, but by no
means so many as one might infer
from an occasional look at the
specimens in the corridor or wait
ing-room of the shady hospital or
lying-in institution. Some of the
stooges you see in the cage there
are just meek little wishy-washy
creatures—mice who are not quite
man eucugh to reject the stooge
role and remain with their wives
during delivery. They are so ignor
ant of everything that pretains to
the bbay business — thanks to the
ladylike education they have had
so far—that the people who run the
hospital or lying-in place and pre
fer to keep their ways dark find it
easy to pash them around and make
boobs of them. j,
A man must first know his way
about, if he means to play a man's
part in this baby business. So it is
up to the expectant father to
study everything his wife studies
about it.
ANSWERS and QUESTIONS
Keep Dandruff Off and Hair On
Please tell us whether taking a '
shampoo twice a week Is too often.
I can't keep my head free from
dandruff unless I do , but some
people say it makes the hair fall
out. (A. W. B.)
Answer—No it doesn't make the
liulr fall out. Unimportant how fre
quently you shampoo if you apply
a little oil to scalp afterward to
replace the natural oil removed by
the washing. Systematic use of sul
fur-salicylic pomade will control the
dandruff, as instructed in pamphlet
on the hair and scalp sent on re
quest if you Inclose ten cents and
stamped self addressed envelope.
If You Can't Be a Lady
I realize the help situation is
dilllcult, but darned if 1 can see
what connection Allergy has to the
Menopause. I asked for your pam
phlet "Relief for Allergy” and I
received a pamphlet on "The Men
opause.” (Thomas A.)
Answer—I knew it. The Allergy
pamphlet is white. The Menoimuse
pamphlet was formerly an appro
priate gray. But the last printing
of the latter was on white paper,
and so you see, in the hustle and
bustle of getting prompt answers
off to people who were waiting and
taplpr.g their feet in a frightening
way, I just overreached Allergy
and came up with Menopause. But
keep it. Tom who knows, you may
get gray and have hot flashes and
all that.
Copyright 1944 by John P. Dllle Co
study each point in detail; and the
complexity of each point is like the
dream design of some master in
balanced detail. Never do the points
of a flake vary from each other;
for there is a crystalline order in
nature that is as near perfection
as anything we know.
Watching these flakes, so fragile
that a puff of breath can destroy
them, one may also think of that
other common hexagonal crystal,
one of the most durable of all !■
the rocks of the hills and the sandi
of the seashore—quarU. There k.
surely, some close cosJhic kinship
between them.